in reply to Perl 64-bit versions

5.14.3 has been postponed for lack of requests to backport fixes. In other words, nothing critical is known to be missing from 5.14.2.

I don't know any 5.12.x or 5.14.x that has problems not in earlier 5.12.x or 5.14.x. They truly have been maintenance releases as they should be.

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Re^2: Perl 64-bit versions
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 13, 2012 at 21:48 UTC

    Looks like I'll be holding out for 5.16.1 when (hopefully) they'll have fixed the problem with vec.

    It'd be nice if this silliness went away also, but as it seems to be deliberate -- no matter how ill-advised -- I won't hold my breath. 

    c:\test>perl -wE"$x = 0xffffffffffffffff"
Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable at -e line 1.

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    The start of some sanity?
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      I agree. That belongs in a linter (e.g. perlcritic).
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